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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
Michael Butler

France 14-0 Gibraltar: hurrah for the current format of international football!

France 14-0 Gibraltar.
The kind of rugby score France could have done with. Photograph: Jean Catuffe/Getty Images

ONLY TWO CONVERTED TRIES IN IT, BOYS

Well done, France, they’re 198th. If France are posing as Michael Owen in this slightly stretched analogy, then Football Daily is very much channelling Neville Southall after watching France’s record-breaking 14-0 win [FOURTEEN – Football Daily Vidiprinter] over Gibraltar, the biggest victory in men’s Euros qualifying history. Spare a thought for the minnows, with a population the size of the 3rd Arrondissement, living in a mountainous territory of two-and-a-half square miles, who were reduced to 10 men after Ethan Santos’s early red card. Glory to France, who have reached the last two World Cup finals and count some of the best and most expensive players on the planet among their ranks.

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